My reviews of Rival Sons, including this album minus the tour edition addition, can be found here, so this is a quick reminder of the band's excellence and a comment on that extra disc: all six further tracks are great, 2 recorded at the initial Valkyrie sessions and 3 at Norway's Juke Joint Studios.
Opener Too Much Love is more signature rock, predominate slide guitar and Jay Buchanan's superb vocal - always; My Nature is a powerful ballad; Open My Eyes [live at JJS] has great acoustic slide; the first big gem is the cover of CCR's Long As I Can See the Light [JJS], again an acoustic version; penultimate is Where I've Been [JJS] continuing with the acoustic slide and JB's emotive singing, and closer Black Coffee is a wonderful cover of the Ike and Tina Turner song made famous by Humble Pie - Buchanan is no Steve Marriott clone [the latter too brilliantly unique for that] but if anyone could give this a worthy homage in performance, Rival Sons certainly succeed, and as further reverence to HP and SM, the song has female backing singers too - a musical development Marriott made for the Humble Pie album Eat It.
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